5 papers
Immersive Social Interaction with VR and LLM-Assisted Humanoids
Niraj Pudasaini, Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala, Pranav Doma +2
Humanoid robots can extend human presence to remote, constrained, or hazardous environments, but existing teleoperation interfaces often require physically demanding motion trackin…
Egocentric Tactile and Proximity Sensors as Observation Priors for Humanoid Collision Avoidance
Carson Kohlbrenner, Niraj Pudasaini, William Xie +3
Collision-free motion is often aided by tactile and proximity sensors distributed on the body of the robot due to their resistance to occlusion as opposed to external cameras. Howe…
FAME: Force-Adaptive RL for Expanding the Manipulation Envelope of a Full-Scale Humanoid
Niraj Pudasaini, Yutong Zhang, Jensen Lavering +2
Maintaining balance under external hand forces is critical for humanoid bimanual manipulation, where interaction forces propagate through the kinematic chain and constrain the feas…
Humanoid Agent via Embodied Chain-of-Action Reasoning with Multimodal Foundation Models for Zero-Shot Loco-Manipulation
Congcong Wen, Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala, Yu Hao +8
Humanoid loco-manipulation, which integrates whole-body locomotion with dexterous manipulation, remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. Beyond whole-body coordination and bala…
H2-COMPACT: Human-Humanoid Co-Manipulation via Adaptive Contact Trajectory Policies
Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala, Hao Huang, Niraj Pudasaini +5
We present a hierarchical policy-learning framework that enables a legged humanoid to cooperatively carry extended loads with a human partner using only haptic cues for intent infe…